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Elizabeth Kolbert has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
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What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
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Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of…
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His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
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Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him…
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What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what…
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Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy,…
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Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and…
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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay…
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